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male announcer: The following is a presentation
of HBO Sports.
- Hello, again. I'm Jim Lampley.
On September 16, HBO Pay-Per-View will take you live
to Las Vegas for the long-awaited showdown
between already-legendary knockout artist Gennady Golovkin
of Kazakhstan and consummate boxer-puncher
Canelo Alvarez of Mexico.
It's the most compelling style matchup in boxing
in several years.
And to help get you ready for it,
we're going to look back at Triple G's
last appearance in the ring,
March 18 in Madison Square Garden
against Brooklyn-bred, once-beaten cancer survivor
Danny "Miracle Man" Jacobs.
There was every reason to believe that Jacobs would be
the most difficult opponent of Golovkin's career,
and when he developed a plan to arrive in the ring
outweighing Golovkin by as many as a dozen pounds,
it suddenly became apparent that Golovkin's
23-fight knockout streak might be in jeopardy.
Let's go back to that night in Madison Square Garden
to hear how I called the fight in company with Roy Jones
and Max Kellerman.
So if you've been watching college basketball all day
and you just know turned on the fight, welcome.
Your timing is perfect.
[bell dings]
If somebody got knocked out of your brackets, don't worry.
There will be another knockout coming very soon
in the estimate of most people as they get ready to watch
this middleweight championship fight.
Round 1 begins.
- Once again, Triple G comes out very smartly.
Not trying to go in and just rush to see--
not see what he has in front of him.
Trying to get close, use that jab,
find out what Danny Jacobs has to offer
before he takes any risk.
all: Triple G! Triple G!
- Crowd begins to chant.
And you know the chant: "Triple G."
- That tells you something about the way
the fight world feels about Triple G.
This is Daniel Jacobs' hometown.
He was an amateur star here.
He's fought here for most of his career.
And they're chanting "Triple G."
- Charisma rules.
- And so do knockouts, and Triple G has left
a string of knockouts since he first
appeared on American television.
- A big string of 'em.
- Hard jab by Golovkin.
They've traded jabs a few times already.
Golovkin threw one left hook and a right hand
in the early going. - Jacobs has--
- Now Jacobs with a flurry.
- Jacobs has real punching power,
especially early in fights,
and when he hurt Peter Quillin, "Kid Chocolate,"
a fight that Quillin was considered the favorite
going in, he jumped on Quillin
and got him out in the first round.
- Which could be dangerous if that happens
in the first round here, because you can't
leave yourself as open when you attack Triple G
like he did when he attacked Peter Quillin.
All it takes is one shot from Triple G.
- Both fighters are relatively cautious in the first round.
Now Triple G begins to step up
and fire power shots.
Right hand over the top misses.
Jab landed a couple times.
Jacobs just missed with a right hand.
Firing his jab down the pike.
Left hook by Golovkin.
Right hand on the shoulder.
- A lot on the line and two big punchers.
They're feeling each other out.
- Neither man taking any big chances in round number 1.
They want to see what each other want to do.
- And Jacobs has to be very careful
how he backs straight back like he just did,
because he's open for a Triple G straight right
if he does that again.
Good jab by Jacobs. - Excellent jab.
Long jab.
Got a tiny reach advantage against Golovkin.
Needs to use it if he can.
- Lift your hands up!
- Break! No punches! - Good body shot inside
by Jacobs.
- He also--Jacobs has to try to keep
Triple G in the center of the ring.
Don't let Triple G back him back
and push him back too frequently.
- 'Cause Triple G doesn't just follow his opponent around.
He cuts off the ring. - Like he's doing right now.
- Right, he slides to the spot
where his opponent will be... [loud tapping]
Forcing a change in direction of the opponent,
making the ring smaller and smaller until
his opponent's back is on the ropes or in the corner.
[bell dinging] - Time!
- Round 1 seems relatively even.
If there's an edge, it's that footwork of Triple G
that always makes the opponent seem to be on the defensive.
- Let's see a little more faith in--
little more faith in the jab.
Even if he touch up here, it's okay.
Okay?
Very, very good.
Got that one out of the way.
Do not be reaching for him, but make sure
that we get a little feint, okay?
You got rounds. Just let him--
let him walk into something.
- Back to the right, start touching him
a little bit with the--yeah.
Keep your hands up, though.
Don't play with your defense. - Okay.
- Take a little drink.
I want that jab working up and down.
- Okay. - And look--
touch him a little bit with the right hand downstairs.
Roll out of it. Touch and roll, all right?
[whistle blowing] Stay smart, son.
- In round 1, Golovkin seemed a little wary of Daniel Jacobs.
Not as relaxed as we've seen him
against most of his opponents... [bell dings]
Coming into tonight.
Again, Max Kellerman pointed out before the fight,
almost everybody in boxing now regards Jacobs
as the best opponent yet to have been
in the ring with Golovkin.
Harold gave the first round, unofficially,
to Daniel Jacobs.
- You know, not much happened, but Jacobs landed
a few jabs; I can see that.
- There you go! - I think--
- Golovkin doesn't lose many rounds.
- I think Triple G is fighting a very smart fight, Jim.
He's trying to wait until he finds out
what Daniel Jacobs has before he exposes himself.
- Jacobs in a southpaw stance now,
inviting Golovkin to throw a straight right hand,
which is the classic tactic against a southpaw.
- Nice! Great left hand from Jacobs.
Right down the pike. - Whoa, break out of there.
Don't hold each other. Let go. - Golovkin obliged
with the right hand that Jacobs surely expected to see--
- Break!
- Still in the southpaw stance.
- Take-- - His last fight against
Kell Brook, guys,
Golovkin was seen as vulnerable
to a skillful boxer at a certain level
'cause he got hit a lot, and the question going into
this fight is if a blown-up welterweight
hit him like that, that's one thing,
but what happens if a big, powerful,
skillful middleweight hits him like that?
And the question is, can Daniel Jacobs
fight on that level as a middleweight?
- Well, can he hit him like that?
'Cause we haven't seen anybody land
a substantial punch yet,
so that's what we're looking to see.
- Break it! Hey, hey!
- In the second round in London--
- Don't hit him in the back when you tie up like that.
- Kell Brook popped Golovkin's head up into the air
with a perfect uppercut.
And surely, all future Golovkin opponents were thinking,
"Let me hit him with that uppercut.
See what happens."
- So far Daniel Jacobs has neutralized Golovkin
through a round and a half,
more than we've seen Triple G neutralized
by any fighter since he's been to the States.
- Punch him with that other hand!
There you go!
[shouting from crowd]
- Golovkin, looking, looking--again,
wary of Jacobs.
- Yup, usually his offense is starting
to get untracked by now.
- There's his jab.
- There you go! Keep walking!
- Right hand over the top by Golovkin.
Partial contact, not full.
- Followed by a counter left hook by Jacobs.
- Don't let him low! - Don't let him low! Keep up!
- I see a two off the step!
One-two, one-two off the step!
- Crowd is nervous, anxious, expecting to see more action.
- One-two, baby! - Jacobs gets away
from a right hand.
- That's good footwork by Jacobs.
- Golovkin blocking the hook with his gloves.
Touches Jacobs' body with the right hand.
First two rounds have been, in effect,
a war of nerves.
- Likely won by Jacobs. - Time!
- Jacob--Daniel Jacobs seated at ringside, son--
or, Nathaniel, I should say.
Daniel's son, seated at ringside
next to his mom,
girlfriend Natalie.
- Stay a little bit more rhythmic.
- Okay. - You don't have to run,
but just walk. You're walking him well.
Aim that jab at his chest, and then at his solar plexus.
- Okay. - All right?
You're missing the one up top, and he's aware of that.
- Okay. - He's wary of the right hand,
and it ain't even hit him yet. - Okay.
- Now, let's keep boxing smart-- - We winning?
- With--we're winning this
fighting power with finesse.
- Okay. - All right?
- Deep breath.
[whistle blowing]
- A small but interesting contrast early
after the first two rounds.
CompuBox numbers have Golovkin
landing 12 punches to only 8 for Jacobs.
Both fighters throwing about 40 punches.
Harold Lederman, unofficially,
has given the first two rounds to Daniel Jacobs,
though CompuBox sees Golovkin landing more punches.
- I've seen Jacobs land all the clean punches.
There haven't been many.
You heard in Jacobs' corner, they're happy
that he's fighting power with finesse.
The question is, can he neutralize
Golovkin's offense over 12 rounds?
And Triple G, thus far in his career,
has been impossible to stink out.
In other words, eventually,
he makes the other guy really fight.
What happens when that happens?
- Well, what we're looking for is what happens
when someone lands the first big, clean punch.
That's what we really want to see.
[crowd cheering]
Like that.
Wasn't clean-- - Body shot by Daniel Jacobs.
- Wasn't clean, but it was close to a big punch.
- Golovkin knocking his head back with a jab upstairs.
Partial contact with the right hand.
In case you just joined us for the main event,
these two fighters have a tough act to follow.
The fight which preceded them into the ring
was clearly the fight of the year so far,
a tremendous knock-down, drag-out battle
in which Román "Chocolatito" González,
after 46 consecutive wins,
lost for the first time
to an unheralded Thai challenger
named Srisaket Sor Rungvisai.
- And though he climbed off the deck in the first round,
"Chocolatito" appeared to win on our cards,
but it was a tough fight, and as you mentioned, Jim,
number one pound-for-pound in the world
now as up for grabs as it's been in the last several years.
- I disagree with that.
- You mean you would still rank
"Chocolatito" number one pound-for-pound?
- No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
- Lomachenko. - Lomachenko is definitely
number 1-B, and then you got to still
give number 1-A to Andre Ward
until him and, um, Kovalev fight again.
- Meantime, Triple G is--
- Number--number 2.
- Has got his hands full tonight
with a fighter who's been able to neutralize him so far.
- And he may be 2-B, because you've also got
to put Terence Crawford up there in that number 2,
so he may be 2-A.
- Well, we could get into a deep discussion about that.
But it's better to simply call this fight.
- That was just my opinion.
- Triple G's jab a little more untracked in this round.
- Triple G starting to relax a little bit more.
Starting to fight more in the kind of rhythm
that we've seen in the past.
First two rounds were sort of
faux-Triple G. - Break!
- Well, he was very cautious against Lemieux,
who's a huge puncher,
but he was winning all the rounds
behind his jab as he was cautious.
Not sure that's the case here, and he just
got caught with a good hook.
- A very good hook.
- Well, he was winning all the rounds against Lemieux
because he was letting his hands go
and fired 50 jabs in the first round.
He may not have thrown 50 hard punches so far in the fight.
- Break! - Jacobs is taller,
longer than Lemieux-- [bell dinging]
- Time! - Longer reach. Better boxer.
Bigger.
- Good round, you just got to be more aware, okay?
No free shots out there. You got to be more aware.
Ben. Water? - Yeah.
- Okay, here we go.
Okay, listen now. You landed the uppercut.
Let's get in little feints going with the uppercut,
and then land something, but bring it all the way back,
'cause he's countering, all right?
- Yes. - All right.
- Son... - Yes, sir.
- I want that jab working up and down,
close the defense on that side.
- Okay. - And every once in a while,
get a little bit closer, hurt him to the body.
He don't like it downstairs.
You hear me?
- Here we see Daniel Jacobs come--
as Triple G landed a jab coming inside,
threw a right uppercut, but Danny caught him on the inside
with a good, quick hook, just more of a slap shot
than power because they were so close,
so he couldn't turn the shoulders on it,
but it was a good shot, right in the face,
probably the cleanest head shot we've seen to this point.
- CompuBox numbers through three rounds:
Golovkin 34 out of 101, Jacobs 26 out of 99.
Golovkin given credit by CompuBox for landing
15 punches in that last round, the third.
Harold, how do you have it through three?
- Okay, Jim, I got it 2 rounds to 1,
29-28 Danny Jacobs.
Jim, I thought Danny Jacobs won the first two rounds.
At least he fought a little.
I mean, Triple G really didn't start fighting
until round 3; I thought in round 3,
he opened up, and he started landing nice shots.
But rounds 1 and 2, I just thought
Danny Jacobs outboxed him.
2 rounds to 1, Danny Jacobs.
- Hard right hand by Golovkin!
Down goes Jacobs!
First knockdown of the fight-- - Three...
- Comes in round number 4. - Four, five...
- Everybody wondered what would happen when
Golovkin unleashed his power.
There's one thing that happens.
- Let's see your gloves. Okay. All right.
Box!
- So Golovkin has knocked Jacobs down.
Let's see if he'll cut loose.
[crowd cheering]
Starting to land most of his shots now.
These are hard jabs right on the chin.
- Beautiful jabs.
- Uppercut lands for Golovkin.
Chasing Jacobs into a corner.
Hard right hand.
Another jab.
Golovkin boxing purposely and fiercely.
- Critical for Daniel Jacobs to land something
against Golovkin to slow his roll right now.
- But Golovkin being very smart on this attack.
He's not running in wild against Danny.
He's being very calculative in the way he's attacking.
Using his punches smartly, not just wading in there--
- Now chanting "Triple G" again.
"Triple G! Triple G!"
They want to see the damage.
Good left hook by Daniel Jacobs.
Momentarily stops the flow.
- This is beautiful maturity by Triple G as well.
He's not just running in, trying to finish the guy
because he's knocked him down, he realizes that
Danny is still dangerous, so he's still taking his time,
being very smart on his attack.
- Jacobs trying to answer back now.
Got his bearings. Wants to land something hard
to leave that impression in Golovkin's round--or mind--
before the round is over, but Golovkin is
landing that jab powerfully and fiercely over and over now.
- Yeah, Danny needs to do something to either counter
or take that jab away or it's gonna cause him some problems,
because if the jab keeps landing,
the right hand is soon to follow.
- Good jab from Daniel Jacobs just now,
and he landed a nice right hand on Golovkin's head before that.
[loud tapping]
- Left hook lands for Golovkin.
Right hand as well. Jacobs firing back!
- Good right hand from Daniel Jacobs.
- Firing back, giving a good account of himself
in coming back from the knockdown early in the round.
- Time!
- But it was a one-sided round for Golovkin,
who landed three times as many punches as Jacobs
by CompuBox count and knocked him down.
- Don't wait for him.
That was totally unnecessary.
Deep breath. Regain control.
- I want you back on that jab walking him.
It will come. - Okay.
- Relax.
Relax. It will come.
Keep the stick on 'em.
Touch him and soften him up.
- Here's the danger of turning southpaw
against a guy like Golovkin: he turns southpaw for a minute,
the overhand right landed, followed by another
short right hand that put him down.
May have been more off-balance than anything.
It wasn't a real big knockdown.
Maybe more of a flash,
but you see him in the southpaw position.
This shot was the one that would have took him
right down right away-- that was the big shot,
then he went down from the second one, so...
- And here's twin brother Max Golovkin,
reacting to the action.
First celebration of the fight for the Golovkin corner.
Now we go to round number 5.
- Two well-placed right hands by Gennady Golovkin.
- This is a huge round for Jacobs.
Because so far, what he showed when he had some early success
is that he could neutralize Golovkin.
Now that Triple G got untracked
and started to really do damage,
can Jacobs actually fight with him?
- Golovkin landing the right hand again.
- Yes. - And a fierce body shot.
- Break! Break. Break. - Danny Jacobs
trying to hold on.
- And Golovkin doing a really good job
of punching inside while Danny's trying to tie him up.
He's throwing really good punches.
- It is impossible to stink Triple G out
because unlike a lot of pressure fighters,
even including a prime Mike Tyson,
he knows how to open up a defensive fighter
on the inside and land clean shots.
- But I don't think Danny Jacobs
is here trying to stink him up.
He's just looking for the right opportunities.
He's not trying to stink the fight up, that's for sure.
- I totally agree. He's trying to fight him.
- Yes.
Good body shot. - Great body shot by Golovkin.
- And why would Danny turn back southpaw, I don't know.
That's how he got knocked down. That's crazy.
- Break. Break. Break. - Like that, for example.
If your arm is free, you should punch.
- Why would you turn southpaw against him?
That's how you got knocked down.
- Jacobs complained to the ref,
but Triple G's arm was free.
The ref hadn't said, "Break," so Triple G kept punching.
- You heard Andre Rozier between rounds
saying to Daniel Jacobs, "That was totally unnecessary."
- Exactly. - I thought that was
about turning southpaw. - I thought so too,
and he's right back out here southpaw again.
I don't know. - Where's that double jab?
- I don't understand it.
- He opens himself up to Golovkin's right hand,
which is every bit as lethal as the left.
- Yeah. - If not more lethal.
- Hook to the body and the straight right hand.
- There you go! - Okay, break!
Back up.
- Good body shot by Danny Jacobs.
Daniel Jacobs.
- Golovkin can take punishment well.
- Of course he can.
- It's regarded as one of his strengths.
Jacobs fighting out of that southpaw stance again.
- Maybe he's trying to confuse Golovkin.
- Maybe Golovkin didn't expect it.
But he certainly knows what to do against it.
- Walk him! Walk him! - Fire straight right hands.
- 350 amateur fights, he knows what to do against anything.
- Good left hook by Jacobs. Reaching for Golovkin.
Another combination by Jacobs. Good body shots.
- Landed some good shots in this round.
- Yes. - Very much so.
30 seconds remaining in the round.
- He's got to be careful not to run into nothing.
- Jacobs getting a little bit more offensive,
fighting out of the southpaw stance.
Now Golovkin puts the pressure on again.
- Step around him! Walk a little! Walk a little!
[loud tapping]
- No punches! Break, break, break. Back up.
[bell dinging] Time!
- And another final flurry
at the end by Golovkin
as round 5 comes to a close.
- All right? Okay.
Okay, very good.
- [speaking native language]
[crowd chanting]
He can score on you, son, is when you stop.
Didn't we talk about this? - Yes.
- I want you to keep walking
with that jab, touch him to the body a little bit.
He don't like the body shots.
But be smart. - Okay.
- Be smart. We can win this round by round.
And that's what I want. - Okay.
- Here we see Triple G come and counter the over--
counter the jab with the overhand right,
right on the button, best punch landed in that round.
Daniel Jacobs was backing up from it,
so he kind of went with the punch, it didn't hurt,
but that was a clean shot.
Probably the best shot that Triple G landed
in that particular round.
- Daniel Jacobs took that punch pretty well.
[bell dings] CompuBox numbers so far:
through round 6, Golovkin landing--
or, through round 5, I should say--
Golovkin landing 88 out of 228, 39%.
Jacobs 51 of 159.
- Let go of each other. Don't hold each other--
- So Golovkin has taken over the offensive flow
for the most part.
Jacobs erupting sporadically. - There you go!
- Certainly hasn't given up by any means
as he fires a hard right hand.
- There's a mouse under Jacobs' right eye...
- And here's the footwork factor.
Golovkin cutting off the ring.
- More than likely that mouse-- - Triple G's left eye
is also a little swollen. - Yeah.
More than likely that mouse from Jacobs
comes from when they get close,
Triple G keeps working his hands
and Jacobs is just letting his hands go.
So Triple G is getting some good shots on the inside
when they do that.
- That's it!
- Gonna open up Daniel Jacobs' trainer, Andre Rozier,
and listen to him as he barks out instructions
to his fighter during the round.
Let's see what happens.
- Keep walking. There you go!
Don't pull up!
Don't pull up.
- Break!
- Hands up, and stay smart.
There you go, just keep touching him.
- Hard to say how much of that Jacobs hears from Rozier.
- He hears it all, I can guarantee you, Jim.
Good shot. - Hard right hand by Jacobs.
Golovkin doesn't flinch.
- At all.
- Jacobs was winning his fight
by a little bit against Pirog,
the one loss, when he got caught
with a right hand and knocked cold.
But he's a more mature,
more experienced fighter now--
- A better fighter. - And a better fighter.
And seems to be taking punches better as well.
- He's got to quit relaxing on the inside like he's doing.
That's a very dangerous place because Triple G
is deadly inside and outside.
- Yes, a better puncher than Pirog.
- There you go!
- Come on, Danny!
- Jacobs, at least ten pounds heavier
than Golovkin in the ring tonight,
firing hard shots, and Golovkin treating him
with considerable caution except at those moments
when he steps forward and attacks
with combinations like that.
Golovkin had focused on the jab this round,
so Jacobs has an edge in power shots
here in round number 6.
And lands another one right there.
- It was something like shoe shining,
but with more on it. - This is a good-scoring round
for Daniel Jacobs, who may win it,
as Gennady Golovkin has... - Ten seconds to the bell!
- Sort of put his weaponry into the deep freeze
just a little bit in round number 6,
and Daniel Jacobs showing more confidence...
- Time! - Stepping up and firing away.
We're midway through the fight.
- An important round for Jacobs.
Whether he won it or lost it.
- Breathe. Control first. Let's go.
- Good round? - Good round.
Listen to me, and I want you to remember this.
If you box him all night,
you win every round. - Okay.
- Do not engage unnecessarily. - Okay.
- Just keep sticking him up and down,
and don't wait for him. - Rinse your mouth.
Over here. - Right here.
Do you hear me?
Don't wait for him.
Just keep walking, touch him up and down with the jab,
and fire that right hand across when you see him waiting.
This is swelling on him. - Okay.
- Take advantage of the moment.
- Here you see an overhand right from Danny Jacobs
now over the top of Triple G's jab.
Kind of trading places, and tried a good uppercut,
but he missed it.
Same punch Triple G caught him with the round before,
he caught Triple G with it that round.
- Power in round 6: Jacobs 11 out of 25.
[bell dings] Golovkin 3 out of 10.
So for whatever reason, Gennady Golovkin did not
risk much in the sixth round,
focusing on the jab, and more or less
giving the round, or so it appeared, to Daniel Jacobs.
Harold, how do you have it halfway through?
- Okay, Jim, I got it three rounds apiece.
But on points, 57-56 Gennady Golovkin.
I agree with you about that sixth round, Jim.
I thought Danny Jacobs won it.
I thought Danny Jacobs won the first two rounds
'cause Golovkin didn't open up until the third.
So I've got it, you know, all even in rounds,
but Gennady Golovkin's up one point
because of that knockdown in round number 4.
57-56 Golovkin.
- The threat of Jacobs' power is keeping
Triple G just honest enough
to not give him the bum's rush,
and then Jacobs' quickness
and combination punching is scoring.
- And we wondered about the effect
of Jacobs' unofficial ten-pound--
- Break. - Or perhaps ten-pound-plus
weight advantage in the ring.
We may just have seen some of that in the last round,
as Golovkin was clearly very conservative
in a round in which Jacobs was throwing power shots.
- What happens to a fighter like Golovkin, Jim,
is that when you knock a guy down early in a fight,
it makes you feel like you have to--
you have no sense of urgency because all you got to do
is catch him again, and down he's gonna go.
But you see Daniel Jacobs took
that punch very good right then.
Why does he keep doing it out of the left-hand position--
stance, I don't know, because he keeps getting caught
repeatedly with that same overhand right,
but he's taking it better now
than he took it earlier in the fight.
- Now Golovkin moves in on the southpaw-standing Jacobs
and looks for another right, but it's Daniel Jacobs
who lands a right hand over the top instead.
- A right hook-- - Right hand for Golovkin.
- A right hook out of the southpaw position.
- And now Golovkin lands another right hand,
driving Jacobs into the corner,
and Jacobs fights his way out of the corner.
- And Jacobs is hitting Triple G often and hard enough
that Triple G is shaking "No" after a couple of those shots,
which in boxing is the universal signal that,
"Yeah, you got me."
- Break!
Don't measure him with that glove, either.
- We've never seen Gennady Golovkin
win a decision, though it happened
a few times early in his career.
- How about lose a decision?
That's never happened.
- That has not happened. That's exactly right.
- That was good defense by Daniel Jacobs.
- We've already seen one-- already seen one fighter
with an epic unbeaten career
lose for the first time tonight.
Certainly it's not out of the question
it could happen to Golovkin too.
- An even fight on Harold Lederman's scorecard right now.
- With the exception of the knockdown point.
- Jacobs could be winning this round.
- He's just got to be very careful because
Triple G can change anything with just one shot.
- Yeah, or he could-- - 12 seconds left in the round.
Now Golovkin seems to-- - Oh, good shot--
- To try to win it-- - Good shot.
- Good shot by Jacobs. - Yes.
- Charlie Fitch says, "Don't hold him behind the head."
They both fire in the closing seconds,
and they fight after the bell!
[crowd cheering]
- All right. Okay? Okay.
Okay, that was a little better round.
We cannot just let him work by himself.
We have to be initiating. Okay.
Here, Ben. Ben. Ben!
- Turn him, and short right hand.
You could win this, easy as pie, son.
- Okay. - Don't make mistakes!
- Okay. - Give me a deep breath.
- You hear what he's saying? Stay focused, D.
- Consistency is what wins this.
We fight fire with finesse!
- Control your breathing. Breathe.
- Deep breath. Control it. Keep boxing his ass off.
Attack his left cheek with the jabs and the right hands.
All right, let's keep winning round by round.
- Round by round, all right?
- Power punches through round 8:
and now that statistic has reversed.
In CompuBox, Jacobs now leading Golovkin
60 to 48 in the total number of power punches landed
through eight rounds-- or through seven rounds.
And you heard a certain sense of urgency
from Abel Sanchez, a little bit more volume
than we've ever heard before as Sanchez
spoke to Golovkin between rounds.
all: Daniel! Daniel! Daniel!
- And now the crowd is chanting "Daniel! Daniel!"
Golovkin with a good one-two.
Golovkin with another good one-two.
- Got to be real careful-- - A series of right hands.
Golovkin touching Jacobs up along the ropes.
Jacobs fights his way off.
Back in the southpaw stance.
Golovkin begins to focus on the right hand again.
Jacobs jabbing well with the right hand.
- The one advantage I can see for Jacobs changing southpaw
is that it just gives Triple G a different look.
- A total different look. - And so when he goes back
right-handed, Triple G then has to adjust to that again.
- Right. - He's not seeing
the same thing the whole time. - Very true.
- Well, you got a clue when you heard Andre Rozier
say, "We fight fire with finesse."
- Break! - So, obviously the plan
is to try to outbox Golovkin all the way.
- I don't like the switching to southpaw too much
because of the fact that he's giving up
so many overhand rights,
and that's one of Golovkin's best punches.
But if he doesn't hurt him, then it works.
- Right, it seems to be when Triple G does his best work.
- Exactly.
- Golovkin attacking a little more in this round.
Tastes a few body shots from Jacobs as a result.
Good right hand by Jacobs.
- Best combination of the night for Jacobs.
- Backing Golovkin up.
One minute left in round number 8.
Another very competitive round.
- It was the little room in this building,
The Theater at Madison Square Garden,
that Daniel Jacobs dominated the New York Golden Gloves.
Seemed to win every year.
And he's putting in a very good showing
against the middleweight champion of the world tonight.
This is a competitive fight.
- Oh, good shot. - Hard right hand by Golovkin.
Jacobs took it perfectly.
- Yup, took that very good.
Very well, I should say.
Good jab by Triple G.
- Your old high school English teacher listening in Pensacola?
- [laughing]
She might get mad if I say that.
[loud tapping]
- Good for her.
Ten seconds left in the eighth round.
Uppercut for Golovkin partially blocked.
Lands a one-two-- - Time!
- One more combination to close the show in the eighth round.
Son, listen to me. - We got that one?
- That was close. You made it close.
- Yo, this round 9 coming. - Stick to the game plan.
I want you moving that jab up and down.
When he gets close to you, fire a quick two.
- Okay. - And then step around him.
You're still in front of him.
Give me that. All right?
Give me a deep breath. This is--
- We're winning the fight. - It's close.
- Yes, sir. - It's close.
I'ma keep it real. But you--
you're ahead right now. - Okay.
- Here you see Daniel Jacobs throw one
jab-hook, jab, excuse me, hook,
and followed by a right hand.
Not many fighters can do that, Jim, on the move.
Jab, hook, jab, hook, straight overhand right,
that's pretty good, then-- - Have to be a well-coordinated
athlete to do that. - A beautiful overhand right,
and that's where that extra 100--
that 180 pounds that we're assuming comes into play,
because if he was at 160 or 165,
he would not have taken that shot.
[bell dings]
- It was strategic for Danny Jacobs--
- Unusual territory for Gennady Golovkin
as we go to round 9.
- It was strategic for Daniel Jacobs
to not weigh in this morning,
and therefore not fight
for one of the sanctioning body belts,
because no one, in the end, is gonna remember
who won the belt; they're gonna remember who won the fight.
- Yeah, the win is much more important than just a belt.
Good shot by both fighters.
- So he made the 160-pound limit fair and square,
and then decided the advantage of putting on extra weight
was more important than fighting for some belt.
- CompuBox numbers show-- - Break!
- That Daniel Jacobs has managed to limit
Gennady Golovkin's output and number of landed punches
compared to what he's done before.
Last 12 fights, Golovkin averaged
28 out of 58 per round.
Tonight, the average is 17 out of 46.
Landing fewer, throwing fewer
against bigger, stronger Daniel Jacobs.
- Yeah, if the idea is that Triple G will catch him with
something big that will signal the beginning of the end...
- Hard right hand by Jacobs.
- It may be time to forget about that,
and start winning these rounds
behind more activity for Triple G.
- Yeah, Max, but the thing is, is when you're used
to surviving like that, that's been his--
- Clean shot from Jacobs. - Yeah.
Lately, that's been what he's been doing.
He's been landing big shots on guys
and getting them out of there, so it's not likely
that he's looking to outpoint or outbox nobody.
He's used to-- - But he's usually winning
all--most of the rounds. - That's not what I'm saying.
What I'm saying is he's still used to seek and destroy.
He's not used to having to outpoint and outbox nobody.
- Break! - He's winning those rounds
by seek and destroy, and that's all he knows right now
is seek and destroy. - Well, the way he destroys
is by moving those hands,
and Jacobs is largely neutralizing that.
- Yes, he is.
- In the 23-knockout streak for Golovkin,
Kassim Ouma, a few years back,
made it into the 10th round.
Golovkin ultimately put him away.
Martin Murray made it to the 11th round
in Monte Carlo a couple of years ago.
Golovkin ultimately put him away.
Daniel Jacobs looks more resilient tonight
than anybody has during the 23-knockout streak.
- Oh, good uppercut-- - Uppercut by Golovkin.
Right hook by Jacobs! - Good hook by Danny.
- Left hook by Jacobs!
Firing back and answering everything Golovkin throws.
- Another good hook by Jacobs. - Really was.
And--and Triple G is not digging the body
as frequently as we've seen in previous fights either.
- Doesn't want to drop his hands.
- We've seen him score vicious one-punch knockouts
with body shots.
- Oh, good right uppercut. - Right uppercut by Golovkin.
Right hand by Golovkin. He's going to work.
Showing a sense of urgency! - Yeah.
- And got a little hop out of Jacobs' right foot.
- Oh, good jab! - Backs him into a corner!
- Good jab. That might have hurt Daniel.
- Momentarily got him in trouble.
Great jab. Golovkin. - Ten seconds to go!
- With a chance to do something,
but the round is gonna come to a close!
[bell dinging] - Time!
- Jacobs gets out of trouble.
- [laughing]
- You're making it hard. You had that round,
and you're giving it back by getting careless.
I do not want you pulling back and playing.
- Okay.
- I want that jab working up and down.
Stick to--right here, come on.
- Spit. - Come on.
- You hurt him. He's hurt-- - Rinse his--
- Okay? Here we go.
You throw to that spot, he's not gonna slip it.
He's gonna catch it. It's got to be here.
Okay? I don't care where it hits,
just as long as it hits something.
Don't miss over the top. - Here you see Triple G
land a beautiful right uppercut
right up under Danny Jacobs' left hand
that didn't cause no problems yet.
But that started what this led to.
Here's the best jab of the night by Triple G.
A hard power jab right there, right down the middle.
That shot seemed to have bothered Danny Jacobs
more than any other has tonight.
[bell dings] - Nine rounds in.
We go to the tenth.
- When Triple G hurt Jacobs upstairs,
in that last round, he went to the body,
and that opened up further punishment upstairs.
- Let's see what Harold Lederman thought about it.
What's your unofficial scorecard say, Harold?
- Okay, Jim, I've got it 5 rounds to 4.
86-84 Gennady Golovkin. - Oh, big shots.
- Jim, I think that Gennady's winning, you know,
by 2 points because of that knockdown in round 4.
In other words, I've got him up one round,
but he gets an extra point
for the knockdown in the fourth round.
You know, Danny Jacobs had some terrific rounds.
I thought he won round 6 clearly.
I thought in round-- he won round 8 clearly.
And he won the first two rounds clearly,
so I think this fight is a close fight.
5 rounds to 4, Gennady Golovkin.
- Watch the head! - Jacobs landed some big hooks,
both hands, moments ago.
- Jacobs, through much of the fight, has been more active.
He's more active right now. - Yeah, he is.
Moving his hands very good. He's just got to be careful
not to get caught with a big shot.
- Golovkin seems to be falling into the trap
of trying to line Jacobs up for one big shot.
- And Jacobs is also pounding Golovkin's body well at times.
- And as far as we can tell,
the tactical ploy of rehydrating Jacobs
scientifically to get him to a significantly higher weight,
outweighing Golovkin by ten pounds or more,
appears to have worked.
- And I've got to give Danny credit.
Danny does a good job of boxing out of this southpaw stance.
He's landing right hooks, jabs, straight left hands.
He's very surprising out of the southpaw stance.
Never saw that really-- oh, good right hand.
Never saw that out of him a lot.
Good left hand. - Golovkin is looking
while Jacobs is firing in this particular round.
- Good block-- - Right hand by Gennady.
A left hook upstairs by Jacobs.
- And then, because Triple G is headhunting,
Jacobs is able to avoid some of those big shots.
- And Triple G has not gone to the body much at all
against Daniel Jacobs.
- Jacobs can't relax here, though.
He's letting Triple G get a little too close to him.
- You would think that as the clearly shorter man,
Golovkin might want to get inside
and throw more body shots.
- You'd think so, Jim, but for some reason--
well, it's not "some reason," it's because
that's what he's used to doing.
Most of the time he can knock guys out with head shots,
and he's hurt Daniel with a head shot earlier,
he feels as though that he always can pull off
that knockout if he just gets close enough.
- He hurt Brook with body shots,
but that was an entirely different fight.
- Yeah, I think he respects Jacobs' power upstairs.
And that's making him hesitant to go downstairs.
But that's not the case-- - Jab by Golovkin.
Here we go again. Closing seconds of the round.
Lands another one. - Ten seconds to the bell.
- Throughout most of-- - Oh, good hook by Danny.
Another good hook by Danny!
- Give and take by both fighters.
Good shots by Jacobs. - Time!
- That was a difficult to score round.
[crowd cheering]
But Harold Lederman gave it to Jacobs.
- Give me that mouthpiece.
Rinse him. Give me that water.
Give me that. Rinse.
- That narrows the margin to a single point
on Lederman's unofficial scorecard.
- I don't want you to be careless
in round 11 and 12.
You understand me? - Stay focused.
- And only 26 body shots landed in the fight so far
by Gennady Golovkin.
We've seen some rounds in the past
where he landed that many body shots.
Jacobs has landed more body shots himself.
Overall, Golovkin landing more punches,
but not by a wide margin.
- Here you see Jacobs coming forward with his jab,
a right hand again over the top of his jab,
but it landed high on the neck, behind the ear this time,
and the knuckles of the glove did not land,
so it wasn't really a significant shot.
- So a lot on the line now as we go
to the so-called championship rounds,
round 11 coming up.
This is the round in which Golovkin knocked out
Martin Murray two years ago in Monte Carlo.
Once again, 23 consecutive knockouts.
That streak very much in jeopardy now,
looking at the way Jacobs looks and how he's fought so far.
- They can't stay locked up, 'cause Triple G will do
stuff like that on the inside.
When he's not set, Triple G's still trying to knock him out.
He's thinking, "Lift my hands up and stop,"
but Triple G is still thinking offense,
so he has to be very careful here.
- This would be an incredible upset
if Jacobs could pull it off.
And he's in the 11th round
and Harold Lederman has it as a 1-point fight.
- Okay, break! - The knockdown point
is the only difference on Harold Lederman's card
after ten rounds.
Body shot by Golovkin. Another body shot by Golovkin.
Maybe Abel Sanchez told him between rounds
that that's what he needs to do.
- Oh, good-- - Uppercut by Golovkin.
- Oh, good hook by Danny.
- Break! No punches.
- Triple G has fought and beaten some solid fighters,
and really beaten them up, but this is a peaking fighter.
A big, athletic, skillful... - Don't hold each other.
Let go of each other and box out of there.
- Peaking fighter with a real amateur pedigree
who's overcome the odds in his own life, as we've mentioned,
beating cancer.
Who prepared for this fight meticulously.
And is fighting the fight of his life.
I mean, neutralizing Triple G's offense early.
Getting his off-- own offense going...
- Break! - After being knocked down.
- Fight would certainly appear to be up for grabs
as Golovkin digs in and tries to land
some power shots in the 11th.
- Middleweight championship of the world on the line
in a packed Madison Square Garden.
- Good shots. - And the local kid climbs off
the deck and does this?
- Fantastic. - Low blow.
- Absolutely fantastic story. - Keep the punches up.
- Charlie Fitch has done a great job
of refereeing the fight. - Yes, he has.
- We've barely said a word about him.
- Big left uppercut. - Yes, it was.
Big left uppercut. - Jacobs.
- Body shots by Jacobs.
Golovkin shaking his head.
- What that mean, Max?
- Usually it means, "I felt it."
- [laughing] - Right.
- Usually it means, "Yeah, you got me."
- For those wondering if the Kell Brook fight
meant that Triple G was vulnerable
to a skillful full-blown middleweight
who could maybe take his punch,
I think the answer is yes.
[loud tapping]
- Break! - Mike Tyson came a cropper
against Buster Douglas in Tokyo.
Golovkin, because of his dominance,
has been compared to Tyson-- - Oh, good hook!
[bell dinging] - Time! Time!
- Both fighters landed down the stretch.
Jacobs' hook may have been the best punch.
- Guys, according to Harold Lederman
and I think by our own eyes,
the middleweight championship of the world
looks like it's up for grabs in the 12th round.
Who wants it?
- Harold gave the 11th round to Daniel Jacobs.
But now he's had Jacobs winning two in a row.
- Be confident of the-- of your shots,
but be better defensively, okay?
Now--now better jabs.
Better jabs, and work into a shot, okay?
Don't be, "We're looking for one."
One, two, three, cover, counter. - Yes.
- Okay?
- Sanchez is calm.
- I'm still gonna ask you for that shot over here, all right?
- Here we see something we're not used to seeing.
Exchange, hook by Danny, hook by Golovkin,
overhand right by Danny, left hook by Danny.
Three--three punches to one,
and Golovkin did not win the exchange.
Something we never see often here on HBO.
- Very seldom. 12th round.
Everything on the table
for Gennady Golovkin and Daniel Jacobs.
- Okay, break!
- Golovkin has been a methodical fighter.
Can he fight with passion in this round?
- Gennady Golovkin has had 23 knockouts in a row,
but never a 12th-round knockout.
- Break! - 32 knockouts
in 35 fights, unbeaten to this point in his career.
Daniel Jacobs was regarded by most experts
coming in as the best opponent yet for Golovkin.
He's almost certainly proven beyond a shadow of a doubt
that that's exactly what he's been.
- He's got to be really careful here
'cause Golovkin's really throwing some big shots--
- And so is Daniel. - Yes.
But Golovkin is throwing 'em when Daniel's not ready,
like right here. - Break!
- Good jab, good uppercut by Golovkin.
Jabbing Jacobs back again.
Daniel starts to work.
- The way Jacobs has taken Triple G's vaunted power
is very impressive tonight.
- Forcing Golovkin to try to box his way to a win...
- Oh! - In the 12th round.
Those kind of punches right there, on the break
when Danny's not ready, those are the punches--
Daniel is not ready, those are the punches
I'm talking about, Max, when he gets him and he's not set.
- Jacobs comes right back. - Yeah, but Jacobs
has to keep his focus-- - Little left hook inside
by Golovkin, right hand by Jacobs.
- Good shot by-- - Another little left hook
inside by Golovkin. - Oh!
Jacobs pulling out all the stops now.
Stepping over to the side, throwing the hook.
Catching Triple G on the angle.
- Oh, good right hand--wow. - Great right hand down
the pike by Jacobs! - Wow--oh, good shot by--
- Urgency as Golovkin-- - Oh, big uppercut by Jacobs!
- Uppercut by Jacobs! Tremendous fight!
Tremendous fight now. - No punches, guys. No punches.
- Down the stretch of the 12th.
- One of these big punches produces a knockdown,
it could seal the fight one way or another.
- Break!
- Less than a minute to go!
- Good right hand by Triple G.
- Crowd in Madison Square Garden quite amazed
by what they're seeing.
all: Daniel! Daniel! Daniel! Daniel!
Daniel! Daniel! Daniel!
[crowd cheering]
- Jacobs' eye beginning to close on the left side,
or so it appears. - Last round,
so it really doesn't matter at this point, Jim.
- He needs to close the show with a rally right here.
- Yes, he does. - "He" being?
- Danny Jacobs-- well, both guys.
- Without getting knocked down.
- I think Golovkin's ahead in the round.
- I agree. - Not getting knocked down.
- Good left hook by Jacobs.
Needs another one like that.
Right hand by Golovkin. - Break! No punches.
- Ten seconds to go! - Ten seconds in the fight!
- Who's gonna land the last shot?
- Break! Break!
[bell dinging] That's it.
[crowd cheering]
- Stand up! I want you to stand up!
- Really, really good.
- For the first time in Triple G's professional career,
the final bell sounded
and the outcome is in doubt.
- And Abel Sanchez comes across the ring
to hug Daniel Jacobs and share a hug with Andre Rozier.
Very classy on the part of Abel Sanchez.
- Very, very classy on the part of Abel Sanchez.
Very, very classy on the part of his fighter.
Very, very classy on the part of Danny Jacobs and his camp.
What a great fight. We may as well go ahead
and put this in the books for number two
because this would be a great fight again already.
- A lot of affection exchanged
between the fighters and the trainers here
after a great fight in Madison Square Garden.
They had a tough act to follow after "Chocolatito" González,
and Srisaket Sor Rungvisai produced the fight of the year
in the preliminary.
Now let's take a look at what might be
the decisive point in the fight,
and that is the round 4 knockdown by Golovkin.
Not one of the most thunderous knockdowns of his career
but enough to get the extra point.
- Not the most thunderous knockdown,
but we saw the same thing kind of in the first fight,
and look what happened.
- Harold Lederman, what does your final scorecard show?
- Okay, Jim, I've got it 114-113 Gennady Golovkin.
I just think he outfought him in that round 12
to win the fight.
I mean, I thought it was a very, very close fight.
The 1-point difference is that knockdown in round 4,
just like you said, and, you know,
I think it could go either way.
I've got it six rounds apiece, Jim,
but in points 114-113 Gennady Golovkin.
- And we will await the official scores
from three judges.
Harold, who are they, and what do you think?
- Okay, Jim, Max Deluca from Tustin, California,
excellent judge, works all over the world,
well-known judge who works for the WBC.
Don Trella doing a great job.
Every time we see him, he gets better.
He's from-- he's from Connecticut.
And Steve Weisfeld from New Jersey.
We know him well. He worked for us.
So three really good judges.
I think we'll get a good decision.
- Gennady Golovkin's 23-knockout streak
has come to a close.
Has his 35-fight unbeaten professional career
also seen its first defeat?
In the preliminary fight just preceding this,
Román "Chocolatito" González, ranked the number one
pound-for-pound fighter in the world
by most credible ranking services,
lost for the first time.
He's now 46 and 1.
Is Golovkin 35 and 1?
Or is he 36 and 0?
- [laughs]
- Michael Buffer's ready now with the decision.
Let's go to him. [bell dinging]
- Ladies and gentlemen, here at the mecca of boxing,
Madison Square Garden, New York City,
we go to the scorecards.
A round of applause for both fighters
in this middleweight contest.
[cheers and applause]
Don Trella and Steve Weisfeld
have it 115-112.
Max DeLuca scores it 114 to 113
to the winner by unanimous decision...
still undefeated and still
the universally recognized
middleweight champion of the world,
Gennady Gennadyevich Golovkin,
AKA...
Triple...
G!
[cheering]
- Well, a smiling Gennady Golovkin escapes
with another victory and holds on
to his middleweight supremacy
and his unbeaten professional record,
but faced the biggest scare of his career
and the most difficult fight of his professional career
in a route-going performance against Daniel Jacobs.
Two judges scored the fight 7 rounds for Golovkin
and 5 for Jacobs.
The third had it 6 rounds apiece,
but the knockdown point made it
a unanimous decision for Golovkin.
Some observers felt Jacobs had done enough
to score the upset, but overall,
fans and media mostly agreed with the decision.
There was no controversy.
So Golovkin's unbeaten professional records
remains intact, but the knockout streak
has ended as he goes forward towards his next assignment,
one of the most anticipated fights in boxing in years,
the pay-per-view showdown in Las Vegas
between Triple G, Gennady Golovkin,
and Canelo Alvarez of Mexico.
If ever a fight predicted a head-to-head firefight,
this is it; you don't want to miss it.
[dramatic music]
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